From QED

Journal Club Reading List

• 8/18/10 Bernstein, I., Greene, J. Kruskal, M. - Exact Nonlinear Plasma Oscillations

• 7/28/10 Krall - Principles of Plasma Physics, Ch 10 section on quasilinear theory

• 7/14/10 C.L. Cowan et al. - Detection of the Free Neutrino: A Confirmation

• 7/7/10 M. Yamada, et al. - Magnetic Reconnection of Plasma Toroids with Cohelicity and Counterhelicity and (optional) Y. Ono, et al. Ion Acceleration and Direct Ion Heating in Three-Component Magnetic Reconnection

• 6/30/10 K.H. Burrell - Quiescent H-mode plasmas in the DIII-D tokamak

• 6/16/10 J.D. Jackson - Catalysis of Nuclear Reactions between Hydrogen Isotopes by μ- Mesons, and (optional) J.D. Jackson - A Personal Adventure in Muon-Catalyzed Fusion

• 3/11/09 R. Goldston - Energy confinement scaling in Tokamaks: some implications of recent experiments with Ohmic and strong auxiliary heating Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 26 (1984) 87-103.

• 3/4/09 M. Greenwald, et al. Nucl. Fusion 28 (1988) 2199.

• 2/25/09 F. Najmabadi, et al - Spherical torus concept as power plants: the ARIES-ST study

• 2/18/09 J. Wesson, Tokamaks Sections 1.3-1.7, 13.1-13.5

• 10/22/08 C. Kessel, et al - Improved plasma performance in tokamaks with negative magnetic shear

• 10/8/08 M. A. Beer, et al - Gyrofluid Simulations of Turbulence Suppression in Reversed-Shear Experiments on the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor

• 10/1/08 Dorland, W. et al. - Electron Temperature Gradient Turbulence

• 9/24/08 Evans, T. et al. - Edge stability and transport control with resonant magnetic perturbations in collisonless tokamak plasmas

• 9/17/08 X. Garbet - Introduction to Drift Wave Turbulence Modelling

• 9/7/08 Cohen R. H. and Ryutov D.D - Sheath Physics and Boundary Conditions for Edge Plasmas

• 9/2/08 Turnbull, A D, et al - Edge localized modes in DIII-D high performance discharges

• 8/26/08 Nevins, W. M., et. al. - Discrete particle noise in particle-in-cell simulations of plasma microturbulence

• 8/19/08 Yamada, M. - Progress in understanding magnetic reconnection in laboratory and space astrophysical plasmas

• 8/12/08 Littlejohn, R. G. - A guiding center Hamiltonian:A new approach

• 8/5/08 Kaye, S.M. et al. - Confinement and local transport in the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX)

• 7/29/08 Hazeltine, R. D., Xiao H., Valanju, P.M. - Gyrosheath near the tokamak edge

• 7/22/08 Biglari, H., Diamond, P.H., Terry, P.W. - Influence of sheared poloidal rotation on edge turbulence

• 7/18/08 Zarnstorff, M.C. - Bootstrap Current in TFTR

• 7/8/08 Strangeby, P.C - Modeling plasma contact with the main vessel walls of a divertor tokamak

• 7/1/08 Strintzi, D. - Simple Models of Plasma Turbulence

• 6/24/08 Braginskii, S.I. - Transport Processes in a Plasma (available in grad student reference room in library)